Cocoa banana bread from Dining In: Highly Cookable Recipes (page 275) by Alison Roman

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    Can substitute sour cream or yogurt for mascarpone cheese.

  • allisonsemele on March 20, 2023

    This tasted good, and was great with ice cream. My batter was drier than I usually expect with a banana bread, and it came out a bit like a brownie in loaf form. Mine was done 15-20min early. I made this per the recipe, but skipped the banana on top as I only had 4. Not too sweet.

  • skvalentine on April 04, 2022

    Very good! I skipped the banana on top. Great flavor, not too sweet, my kids asked me to make it again.

  • snoozermoose on December 10, 2021

    This was a massive fail for me. The cake sunk in the middle where the sliced banana lay, and the cake never baked through--it was weirdly fudgey and wet at the same time. I even checked the size of my loaf pan to make sure I didn't goof up there. I bake a lot and am still not sure what happened. Joanne Chang's banana bread recipe from Flour has never failed me before so I'm sticking to that.

  • Cookbooksgalore on September 22, 2019

    Wonderful. Have it with ice-cream for dessert, or slice it up and have it with coffee in the morning. A bout of culinary dyslexia on the first attempt led me to use a full tub of mascarpone (8oz vs 4oz). The second batch was as per the recipe, and guess what? It was good, but not as good as the first. So 8oz is the new standard. And we also put a pinch of cayenne in with the dry ingredients for a bit of heat in the finish.

  • southerncooker on October 14, 2018

    Not my favorite banana bread but my son-in-law loved and daughter said it was good. I didn't do the banana on top since I only had 4 over ripe bananas.

  • teandoranges on October 06, 2018

    This was quite good, but I feel conflicted - I like banana bread in the morning or afternoon with tea, this is more of a dessert, and I usually don't go for bananas in dessert . . .

  • JulieQC on May 17, 2018

    Tasty. Not overly sweet. heavy texturewise. The sugar on top and bottom offers a nice texture and taste.

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